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Office themes 2013

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Is there any plan on adding in more office themes to the office 2013. They are very bland and hurt my eyes after working on the computer for some time. I don't see how this made it past the software test phase as I am a software engineer for
the military. We need more choices than just white or a off white.

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Let me help you with the issue.
For the Office 2013 (RTM) version you may follow the below steps:
1. Go to the File tab
2. Click on Options
3. Choose the General tab on the left
4. Find the ‘Office Theme’ dropdown item
5. Choose between White, Light Gray, and Dark Gray.

I hope the above steps help. If you need any further assistance reply and we will be glad to assist you.
Thank you.

I understand that there is the white, light gray, and dark gray but I have a hard time believing that there is no other themes. Where is the color when we have millions of colors available to the monitors? I feel like office is working backwards
on their color choices. Can we just get a custom theme option where we pick the colors? Please?

I would really like to see the next update contain an option to create your own "template", allowing for customization
of borders and colors (and the wildly unnecessary background image). Far more important would be the option to tell the difference between your menus and the grab-bar, or to have the scroll bar remain a static object rather than auto-hiding all the time.

I don't think the "dark gray" is actually that..."dark". I preferred the "black" theme on Office 2010. It is much easier on the eyes. I wish I would have passed on the purchase of 2013. Thank goodness I still have 2010 on my computer! What was Microsoft
thinking?

I agree, 2013 sucks. Also, what is up with having 3 programs icons (Lync, Word and Outlook) different shades of blue? Seriously microsoft, do you always fire the development staff that put out you last good product (98, XP, Win 7, Office 2010) and then
bring in a new group of idiots on the cheap for products like Vista, ME, Win 8, and Office 2013? Outlook 2013 is insufferable to look at for more than a couple of minutes.

Many people complained about having only the "blinding white" theme in the preview. Surprisingly MS listened and added the "light grey" and "slightly greyer" themes. I agree, they are not enough. Personally, I would like to see them implement,
or offer optional downloads of both the 2007 and 2010 UI themes. I have not seen any buzz about more themes in the foreseeable future. The only way we will get them is if enough people complain to MS about it. Your post here is a start.

MS has a very large audience, so if you want your suggestion to be acted upon you need many people to make the same suggestion. So ask your friends, fiends <grin>, enemies, relatives, co-workers, strangers on the street to also submit your suggestion
to all of the following locations.

Microsoft: Tell us what you think

NOTE: when you post comments / suggestions it is best to limit each submission to one issue. That way replies can be specific to that error. And it makes it easier for MS to assign a submission to a specific development
group or person.

Jeremy: I had a chance to interview Skji Conklin the program manager looking over Office Group Policy and Roaming Settings. I think a lot of people who grew up with Roaming User Profiles in Windows might get confused about how the roaming
feature works in Office. On the Windows side, we roam the actual file on each log in or log out event, which could amount to several MB of data while causing performance issues among other things when logging in and out.

In Office, we roam a tiny amount of information tied to the user account - links to the most recently used docs (MRU), custom dictionary, last page or last slide, and theme settings. Since we only roam links to files instead of the files themselves, the
settings package is tiny and file access management policies remain intact.

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This document that collects many deployment links from technet does not mention themes at all

I'm on day 2 of a new laptop, and I am so disappointed with the background colors available. I hope that more are added soon. Light gray & dark gray are not enough options for me. I had been using office 2007 and 2010 and was excited to
try out home premium. I do not use gmail because I don't like the interface. I hope it is upgraded soon.

I feel sorry for you community support representatives who have to excuse this, because every update to Office is worse than the previous one. My hard drive on my home computer died and my Office 2007 died with it, and I have been forced today to use Office
2013 for a few hours. It's given me a colossal headache and I've had to stop working because it's just blinding. This is inexcusable and I hope whoever thought a grayscale theme was a good idea has been fired. I'm hunting up a copy of 2010 to use on my home
PC and I'm going to recommend to my organization, in my capacity as technical support adviser, that they do NOT upgrade to 2013. Windows OS keeps getting more sleek and colorful, so I have no idea why Microsoft decided to go to a blinding, blocky, UGLY interface
that actively impedes end users. The mind boggles that this ever made it off the original designer's desk, much less into production.

If this continues, I'm going to recommend my organization switch to Google drive. Microsoft Office just becomes less useful with every new iteration.

Wow... I just got "upgraded" from Office 2010 to Office 2013 at work. I can't stand the blinding white. In only a couple of minutes and my eyes are spinning. I cannot stand looking at this for more than a minute or so. I really hate
Linux on the desktop but I don't think I have much of an alternative. I need my eyes, right?

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